Giacomo Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.WLCD0169

By Bak, Berry, Cunitz, Frick, Great Vienna Radio Orchestra, Heger, Koehrer, Robert Fuchs, Terkal, and Vienna State Opera Chorus. By Giacomo Meyerbeer. Classical. 2 listening CDs. Published by Naxos (NX.WLCD0169).

Despite its enormous success during the 19th c., Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera Les Huguenots is rarely staged today, and arguably not with much more frequency at the time of this 1955 studio broadcast from the Vienna opera in a German-sung production. The conductor Robert Heger leads a cast of whom only Walter Berry and the great Wagnerian Gottlob Frick still have any real resonance today, with Maud Cunitz sneaking in just under the wire of recognition. The cast is a fine one however, with the German lyric tenor Karl Terkal a worthy re-discovery, and Valerie Bak a rare presence on record.

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